"The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided."

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“If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.”
“It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.”
“Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.”

Source : "Frances Newton: Faith on Death Row". Interview with Terry Meeuwsen, www.cbn.com.
“We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.”

Source : Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.226
“A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2008.
“If youre going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like Purple Rain and Thriller and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.”
“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”
“Calories donâ€™t count if theyâ€™re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.”

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